Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America.

With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil’s electoral court announced that the soon to be 81-year-old Lula had a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes over opponent Flávio Bolsonaro, giving him 51.8% of the total vote. Bolsonaro quickly refused to concede defeat and asked for the election results to be annulled after an evening of chaos at some polling places that followed a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours.

Bolsonaro is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, whom Lula defeated to take the presidency in 2022.

Lula’s triumph bucks a regional trend of victories for right-of-center presidential candidates allied with Trump. It also means Latin America’s largest economy, with a GDP of $2.6 trillion per year, will likely continue defying Trump’s demands, despite the pressure of increased tariffs.

  • Dewey McBrewster@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    This is funny (circle around the patch on the soldiers vest). You know, when you’re in the killing people business you want a cool logo, something that says, I’ll fucking kill you. And next thing you know… some imbecile revokes your medal, or somebody says, “see, see, look, he’s a Nazi Sympathizer!” sigh

    -edit- I just got trolled by Russian propaganda farm didn’t I?